Kid makes trouble, mom scolds kid, kid considers stopping, continues anyway. Exactly today, but why has it been going on for longer than this? Today, people of color anywhere are being enslaved again for financial needs. The practice of slavery became legal in the 1660’s, and although it was wrong and unacceptable, given the quote from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 that “all men are created equal,” slavery continues. Until 1865, when Abraham Lincoln puts slavery to a stop. Is history just repeating itself now? Slavery is an ongoing problem that needs to be addressed because it was said that everyone is equal, and by enslaving one will break that promise.
To start off, the first problem with this issue is that more than 40 million people are trapped in it, according to TIME Magazine. 71% of women and girls forced into marriage and labor, meanwhile 152,000,000 children in labor. In addition, a recent study by the ILO, WFF and the IOM, 62% were forced into labor, and 38% in forced marriages. This reveals that labor might be more common than forced marriages. Modern slavery remains as one of those rapidly growing severe problems present in almost every country. If the nations don’t make any prevention policies, then it will get worse. …show more content…
Prisoners couldn’t take the abuse, that it caused an uprising, and a strike about prison slavery led by the IWOC last year. According to a study and findings by The Sentencing Project, which stands for crime and punishment, in states like Virginia and Oklahoma, one in every 14 or 15 African American men are imprisoned, which is worrisome. The larger message is that people of color are being targeted more and locked up at an alarming rate. The fact about protests prisoners put up because of neglect, it should be telling everybody something that we should perhaps be alert
To start off, the first problem with this issue is that more than 40 million people are trapped in it, according to TIME Magazine. 71% of women and girls forced into marriage and labor, meanwhile 152,000,000 children in labor. In addition, a recent study by the ILO, WFF and the IOM, 62% were forced into labor, and 38% in forced marriages. This reveals that labor might be more common than forced marriages. Modern slavery remains as one of those rapidly growing severe problems present in almost every country. If the nations don’t make any prevention policies, then it will get worse. …show more content…
Prisoners couldn’t take the abuse, that it caused an uprising, and a strike about prison slavery led by the IWOC last year. According to a study and findings by The Sentencing Project, which stands for crime and punishment, in states like Virginia and Oklahoma, one in every 14 or 15 African American men are imprisoned, which is worrisome. The larger message is that people of color are being targeted more and locked up at an alarming rate. The fact about protests prisoners put up because of neglect, it should be telling everybody something that we should perhaps be alert